2 Reis 16

1 No anno dezesete de Peka, filho de Remalias, começou a reinar Achaz, filho de Jothão, rei de Judah.

When Pekah had been ruling Israel for almost 17 years, Ahaz, the son of Jotham, became the king of Judah.

2 Tinha Achaz vinte annos de edade quando começou a reinar, e reinou dezeseis annos em Jerusalem, e não fez o que era recto aos olhos do Senhor seu Deus, como David, seu pae.

He was 20 years old when he became the king [of Judah]. He ruled from Jerusalem for 16 years. He did not do things that pleased Yahweh his God, good things like his ancestor King David had done.

3 Porque andou no caminho dos reis de Israel: e até a seu filho fez passar pelo fogo, segundo as abominações dos gentios que o Senhor lançára fóra de diante dos filhos de Israel.

Instead, he was as sinful as the kings of Israel had been. He even sacrificed his son as an offering to idols. That was worse than the disgusting things that the people who previously lived there had done, people whom Yahweh had expelled as the Israelis were advancing through the land.

4 Tambem sacrificou, e queimou incenso nos altos e nos outeiros, como tambem debaixo de todo o arvoredo.

Ahaz offered sacrifices and burned incense [to honor Yahweh] on the tops of many hills and under many [HYP] big trees, [instead of in Jerusalem as Yahweh had commanded].

5 Então subiu Resin, rei da Syria, com Peka, filho de Remalias, rei de Israel, a Jerusalem, á peleja; e cercaram a Achaz, porém não o poderam vencer.

While he was the king of Judah, King Rezin of Assyria and King Pekah of Israel [came with their armies] and attacked Jerusalem. They surrounded the city, but they could not conquer it.

6 N'aquelle mesmo tempo Resin, rei da Syria, restituiu Elath á Syria, e lançou fóra de Elath os judeus: e os syros vieram a Elath, e habitaram ali até ao dia d'hoje.

At that time the [army of the] king of Edom expelled the people of Judah who were living in Elath [city]. Some of the people of Edom started to live there, and they are still living there.

7 E Achaz enviou mensageiros a Tiglath-pileser, rei da Assyria, dizendo: Eu sou teu servo e teu filho; sobe, e livra-me das mãos do rei da Syria, e das mãos do rei de Israel, que se levantam contra mim.

King Ahaz sent messengers to King Tiglath-Pileser of Assyria, to tell this message to him: “I promise that I will completely do what you tell me to do, [as though] I [was] your son. Please come and rescue us from the armies of Syria and Israel who are attacking my country.”

8 E tomou Achaz a prata e o oiro que se achou na casa do Senhor e nos thesouros da casa do rei, e mandou um presente ao rei da Assyria.

Ahaz took the silver and gold that was in the palace and in the temple and sent it to Assyria to be a present/gift for the king of Assyria.

9 E o rei da Assyria lhe deu ouvidos; pois o rei da Assyria subiu contra Damasco, e tomou-a, e levou-os presos a Kir, e matou a Resin.

So Tiglath-Pileser did what Ahaz requested. His army marched to Damascus and captured it, and they took the people of Damascus as prisoners to live in the capital city of Assyria, and executed [King] Rezin.

10 Então o rei Achaz foi a Damasco, a encontrar-se com Tiglath-pileser, rei da Assyria, e, vendo um altar que estava em Damasco, o rei Achaz enviou ao sacerdote Urias a similhança do altar, e o modelo, conforme toda a sua feição.

When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet King Tiglath-Pileser, he saw the altar that was there. So he sent to Uriah, the Supreme Priest [in Jerusalem], a drawing of the altar and a model that was exactly like the altar in Damascus.

11 E Urias, o sacerdote, edificou um altar conforme tudo o que o rei Achaz tinha ordenado de Damasco; assim o fez o sacerdote Urias, entretanto que o rei Achaz viesse de Damasco.

So Uriah built an altar [in Jerusalem], following the drawing that King Ahaz had sent. Uriah finished the altar before Ahaz returned [to Jerusalem] from Damascus.

12 Vindo pois o rei de Damasco, o rei viu o altar; e o rei se chegou ao altar, e sacrificou n'elle.

When the king returned from Damascus, he saw the altar. He went to it

13 E queimou o seu holocausto, e a sua offerta de manjares, e derramou a sua libação: e espargiu o sangue dos seus sacrificios pacificos n'aquelle altar.

and burned animal sacrifices and a grain offering on it. He also poured a wine offering on it and threw on it the blood of the offerings to maintain fellowship with God.

14 Porém o altar de cobre, que estava perante o Senhor, tirou de diante da casa, de entre o seu altar e a casa do Senhor, e pôl-o ao lado do seu altar, da banda do norte.

The old bronze altar which had been dedicated long ago to Yahweh was between the new altar and the temple, so Ahaz moved it to the north side of his new altar, [which was bigger than the old altar].

15 E o rei Achaz mandou a Urias o sacerdote, dizendo: No grande altar queima o holocausto de pela manhã, como tambem a offerta de manjares de noite, e o holocausto do rei, e a sua offerta de manjares, e o holocausto de todo o povo da terra, a sua offerta de manjares, e as suas offertas de bebida e todo o sangue dos holocaustos, e todo o sangue dos sacrificios espargirás n'elle; porém o altar de cobre será para mim, para inquirir d'elle.

Then King Ahaz ordered Uriah: “Each morning put on this new altar the sacrifices that will be completely burned, and in the evening put on it the grain offering, along with my offering and the offerings that the people bring, ones that will be completely burned, and my grain offering and the people’s grain and wine offerings. Pour against the sides of the altar the blood of all the animals that are sacrificed. But the old bronze altar will be only for me to use to find out what Yahweh wants me to do.”

16 E fez Urias, o sacerdote, conforme tudo quanto o rei Achaz lhe ordenara.

So Uriah did what the king commanded him to do.

17 E o rei Achaz cortou as cintas das bases, e de cima d'ellas tomou a pia, e o mar tirou de sobre os bois de cobre, que estavam debaixo d'elle, e pôl-o sobre um soalho de pedra.

King Ahaz told his workers to take off the frames of the carts [that were outside the temple] and to take down the basins that were on them. They also took down the bronze tank from the backs of the bronze [statues of the] oxen and put it on a stone foundation.

18 Tambem a coberta do sabbado, que edificaram na casa, e a entrada de fóra do rei, retirou da casa do Senhor, por causa do rei da Assyria.

Then to please the king of Assyria, Ahaz had them remove from the temple the roof under which the people walked into the temple on the Sabbath Day, and closed up the private entrance into the temple for the kings of Judah.

19 Ora o mais dos successos de Achaz, e o que fez, porventura não está escripto no livro das chronicas dos reis de Judah?

[If you want to know about] the other things that Ahaz did, they are written [RHQ] in the scroll called ‘The History of the Kings of Judah’.

20 E dormiu Achaz com seus paes, e foi sepultado junto a seus paes, na cidade de David: e Ezequias, seu filho, reinou em seu logar.

Ahaz died [EUP], and he was buried in [the part of Jerusalem called] ‘The City of David’, where his ancestors had been buried. Then his son Hezekiah became the king.